In recent years, the study of heat to work conversion has been re-invigorated by
nanotechnology. Steady-state devices do this conversion without any macroscopic moving …

Shortcuts to isothermality are driving strategies to steer the system to its equilibrium states
within finite time, and enable evaluating the impact of a control promptly. Finding the optimal …

The finite-time dynamics, apart from its fundamental importance in nonequilibrium
thermodynamics, is of great significance in designing heat engine cycles. We build an …

We investigate a stochastic heat engine based on an over-damped particle diffusing on the
positive real axis in an externally driven time-periodic log-harmonic potential. The periodic …

We investigate maximum efficiency at a given power for low-dissipation heat engines. Close
to maximum power, the maximum gain in efficiency scales as a square root of relative loss in …

The Curzon-Ahlborn (CA) efficiency, as the efficiency at the maximum power (EMP) of the
endoreversible Carnot engine, has significant impact on finite-time thermodynamics …

A universality in optimization of trade-off between power and efficiency for low-dissipation
Carnot cycles is presented. It is shown that any trade-off measure expressible in terms of …

We consider the finite-time operation of a quantum heat engine whose working substance is
composed of a two-level atomic system. The engine cycle, consisting of two quantum …

We study the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of a heat engine operating between two finite-
sized reservoirs with well-defined temperatures. Within the linear response regime, it is …

We apply a unified and trade-off based optimization for low-dissipation models of cyclic heat
devices which accounts for both useful energy and losses. The resulting performance …